tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera December 8, 2023 9:00pm-10:01pm AST
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which both is really some palestinians who live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate cease fire. i'll just say era has accounts of the things and interrogations of the dozens of palestinian manuscripts finds ready forces. israel continues its attacks across the strip. y last. strike is destroyed, gauze is oldest mosque. one of its most in fulton lines marks the as we begin in new york now, where the united nations security council is meetings of the draft resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian sees fire in the gaza strip and comes off the secretary general. and tony, with that i should vote article 99 of the you and johnson. that's his most powerful diplomatic tool. drawing the council's attention to an issue, he believes fractions, international peace and security. opening today's session,
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he said the situation in the besieged because the strip becoming untenable, the conditions for the sick, the delivery of humanitarian aids, no longer exists. the crossing points at the last was not designed for the end of stocks and these the major bottleneck. but even if sufficient supplies would put a medium to gaza, intends to bombard a mental steel it. this is rarely restrictions on movements. fuel shortages and the interrupt is communications. make it impossible for you and agencies in that apartment was to reach most of the people in need. despite his trials in 10, say, 5 bombardments of gone. so the us says it does not support a call for an immediate humanitarian sees fine. and as of today, from us continues to pose a threat to israel and remain in charge of gaza. that is not
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a threat that any one of our governments would allow to continue to remain on our own borders. not after the worst attack on our people in several decades. for that reason, while the united states strongly supports the durable peace in which both is really some palestinians who live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate cease fire to join. now by, i'll just here as diplomatic editor james bases live for us here in the studio. so we heard the statement that by the us deputy a mass of the, to the when james the bottom line. what does that mean to us heading for a veto? i think there's little doubt, if this is brought to vote, is currently scheduled to be brought to a vote in the coming hours. the 2nd meeting of the security council supposed to take place today, then the us is going to veto this resolution. i think that's pretty clear. i don't
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think it will be supported by the u. k. either. although i don't think the u. k. also a permanent member of the security council from what i'm hearing is going to use it's vito. it will property of stain on this, not to. so the decision now, i think, is left to the sponsor, the original sponsor of the reservation. it's got 55, at least 55 coast bonuses from other member states have united nations. but the original sponsor is the united arrow, but brooks, it happens to be the arab member of the security council full department, in fact, till the end of the year when that time runs out of the going to push ahead with this resolution knowing it's going to be vetoed, the reason to do that perhaps is to show the us show the world. that is the us. that is the country is blocking the know 1000. i'm countries like russia might be inclined towards making sure that the vote as payback for what happened over ukraine. in the security account, absolutely, or do they do is the french ambassador, is suggesting and postpone this and try and find something that everyone can agree
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on. the problem is the central question is ceasefire, or noisy spa, and the usaa saying no, see, so that could be, i think, room for another security council resolution of a different type. the perhaps could get support, perhaps on the humanitarian a not enough aid is going in perhaps i think metrics for how much aid and how the ation come in. it's clearly not working. you're going through the roof of border crossing it's, it's a bit of a choke, a whole that, that, that board of us. it's not very big. um, so i think that might be room for another resolution. i think the other thing the potentially we might see is a meeting of the un general assembly. this meeting of the security council can because the set because generally united nations used his or school 99 pads. that's his ability to, to ring the alarm bell in the un system. we've also had another alarm bell wrong. and that's why the head of unrest. unruh is the un agency that deals with the
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palestinians for the plaza. really wrote this laptop to the un general assembly. that's because on road was originally founded and set up by the un general assembly in 1949. he says in my 35 years working in complex emergencies, i've never written such a letter predicting the killing of my stuff. and the collapse of the mandate i'm expected to fulfill really strong words, but also urging the present the general assembly and it's member states to take immediate action to implement an immediate humanitarian. c sponsor, potentially the general assembly. another place to watch. all right, we're going to have to leave it there for now. thank you, james based. let's keep this going though with kristin solutions. he joins us live from the united nations headquarters in new york and kristen. we know that our diplomats was supposed to be meeting with blinking any indication of where that meeting might be going
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and we know that they are supposed to be needing. we know that the atari foreign minister has already met with secretary of state anthony blinking. uh, they issued a read out of that meeting saying that they were continuing to work together doesn't sound like any major changes or decisions were made out of that meeting. other aired, foreign ministers also scheduled to meet with antony blinking today. and we expect them to reiterate the calls that we heard from council members. during this meeting today, the over whelming concern about the insufficient access for humanitarians to get into gaza. and once they are to actually get to the people in need of the need to protect civilians under international law and aid workers. these work concerns raised virtually by all the countries that spoke during the security council meeting. most of them expressed a need and a desire for
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a ceasefire. to be able to accomplish that, a distribution, china, russia, france, all calling for as these fire. but one's name that we've been hearing over and over again from council members, is the need to speak with one voice. france said that that is key that the council must come together. uh malta said, inaction is not an option to japan. the council must speak with one voice so, so clearly there is a desire to show some unity on the part of the security council to bring some relief to the people of gaza and to the conflict. but it only takes one council member to say, one permanent council member to stop a resolution from going forward and, and we're hearing from the united states that they have no intention of supporting this. so try to take us through the process looking for then when can we expect to
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vote, and is there any chance that the whole vote might be cooled off? the default was originally scheduled for this meeting that already happened. it was delayed until the evening about 4 and a half hours time from now. it is currently on the schedule to happen at that time . we heard the french ambassador calling for a delay, so that more negotiation can take place again, emphasizing that the most important thing the council could do was speak unanimously with one voice. that would be the most effective way to bring relief to the people of gaza. so that is distinctly possible that there will be another delay . but if there is a feeling that no further good would come of a delay, that it's not gonna accomplish anything that it's not going to lead to. if there is no common ground to be had, they could put it to
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a vote as scheduled just to get everybody on the record. all right, that's interesting with thank very much kristen, so me. but uh since kristen was talking about the delay going on there, let's take this now to patty call. hi. and we can talk about what's happening in washington dc. try to understand our foreign ministers. we're trying to meet with blinking and pot. and kristen was talking to us about the delays. does that give any opening up our volume is a tool hopeful that they haven't a chance to try and turn around to us position on this so they were very far so. so this explains where outside the 4 seasons where the ford ministers of turkey palestine cutter saudi arabia, jordan egypt, met with the process for about an hour. busy of really sending the same message now that they're sending just across town as the wilson sent. busy and their message was unequivocal across the board. they all says the things they want ceasefire. now that tomorrow, now they were more aiden and they wanted
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a 2 state solution. it was very impassioned. unfortunately, we weren't allowed to bring our cameras in. but just to give you a sense, i was able to ask the question, are, is the, by the ministration, do it in enough to put pressure on israel? are you doing enough to put pressure on israel? what do you say to critics you say you're not doing enough? he said, sorry for administer, answer for the group. he is the chair of this contact for, but he said, look, obviously no one's doing enough because it's still happening. these singles out the by the ministration, and there was a particular line which i thought was really fascinating. he said, we're sending a clear message and we will hold the international community to account a tried to follow up. exactly. what does that mean? what actions are you talking about? i was able to get that question in, but really it was interesting and heard from the jordanian foreign minister who said this has already been a strategic defeat for israel. he said, hatred is growing in the region day by day. and if you, it's not just party is a people's public opinion. israel is possibly killing the idea of the of
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a peace process. he said, generations will no longer believe in peace. and he said this, this is under 30 years of work. it was interesting. they said that one of the things they dressed as they clearly wanted to get across is look, we believe is realized to find the entire international community committee for crime after work. crime, fix breakfast, they're going to be able to just simply leave jobs and ruins and ask us to clean up the mess. and we're our answer to that is unequivocal. know they said they don't want to talk about the day after, which is what secretary blinking keeps talking about. is it, palestinians are going to decide the fate of who governs power size. they said they wanted to state solution. interestingly decided for ministers that we know what this looks like. we have the parameters, so he thinks it could happen in months of even under a year. they were asked if the american, we obviously focused on whether from us could be a part of company in palestine. and they should look, can't have fees from us. it's an ideology at again,
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palestinians get to decide who's going to govern the territories of palestine. what are the things they did talked about as well? which said, look, i don't think you've seen it here as much as in the rest of the world, but it should every television across the world, people are seeing not just israel's doing now, but what israel has done in the past as far as the legal settlements is detention of minors without trials that, that's really brought the issue to the public for and that it's going to in the end, hurts the standing of not just israel, but of the united states. so a very, very interesting that they are going to now take this message to the secretary of state and to be blinking for his part. we saw a slight change just hours ago, was that the state department and he, let's just put it in context. the us made clear that they had said directly to is really partners or benjamin netanyahu. you cannot conduct attacks in the south region and the north. and we saw israel doing exactly that to find the united
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states expectation. and up until just yesterday they've been say, look, they're putting out maps, they're telling people where to go. they're communicating. but we heard from secretary state and to be blinking. that what the intention of these really military is to avoid civilians. there's a gap between that and what's happening on the ground. so it was really the 1st time we've heard such a senior us official acknowledge set for perhaps israel is not actually trying to protect civilians. so these 4 administered on the same page very clear at least. busy 3, what ceasefire now a now to say to should in the very near future. so they're going to bring that message to the secretary states. i will see if they end up telling him what holding that's your account would really look like. all right, thanks so much kindly call home the let's get some analysis now from steven zones. he's a professor of politics and international studies at the university of san francisco,
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joins us now live from san francisco. good to have you with us. so how unprecedented is it to have one country looking like it's going to stand in the way of this meeting cold by invoking onto cool $99.00 of the united nations to try and get a sci fi? how unprecedented is not because they're very use of article 99 is very unusual in the history of the security council are only the only would take place. but when the secretary general deemed that the members of the security council were not living up to their responsibility and, and moving for themselves. and the reason the security council, of course, hasn't moved on its own as the united states has, has blocked it a posing a ceasefire as the united states is getting more and more isolated in the international community. in that regard. as nations around the world have called
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for an end of the slaughter, as well as major religious institutions, human rights groups, and indeed, an overwhelming majority of the american public, according to public opinion polls. so by invoking this extraordinary power that the, the secretary general has. i think he's really a, i'm pushing united states to a test. he may right recognize that likelihood that united states will be tow it or somehow prevent it from going forward. but at least it seems a very clear message, who is in the way of a of the ending the, the ongoing going slaughter and the humanitarian crisis that the israeli war and gaza has caused the us deputy ambassador to the united nations touch the palm from the confliction mechanism and the opening of the kevin shalom crossing. what's clear about that bully,
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they is indicative that the united states does recognize the, the worse than any humanitarian catastrophe. of the more than one point. 8000000 displaced peoples a crowd into this area with very little a little uh, going on cream shalom is on the, is really side of, of, of the, of the border. very close to the a junction board. i've actually been to there been to that area and it would be a, as if it would be an additional uh means of getting this desperately needed a in. but like other things, the united states has said uh about, uh, uh, allowing more aid and previously about avoiding civilian casualties. israel has not followed through and the united states has seemed reluctant to actually backup its words at any time concrete action that would force israel to, to do so. even if we do see a, there's the us deputy,
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invest that the line was indicating, getting through kind of show them how effective will that be in relieving the humanitarian suffering without a seas. 5 being cool. when we heard from the un secretary general in the united nations today just a few hours ago saying the conditions for the effective delivery of humanitarian aid no longer exists. and he is very clear and in pinpointing intense bombardment as one of the reasons for that very much. so it seems, it seems to be a pretty, pretty logical that you cannot distribute a, with bombs falling on you. we've seen how israel has attacked a convoys in the past. even the bomb the roof are crossing when that was when that was uh, the one outlet when entry point 4 for such a. and so it seemed at at least a pause in the fighting is, is, is the, the, the very, the most basic thing that can happen to get a n n n to, uh,
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an enter goes on. especially now given you were having a, uh, is really forces advancing into these crowded areas. and you know, it is going to, and you know, no, no agency is going to, uh, you know, put, is personnel address, especially if this logistically impossible to get the a to people in the 1st place whoever is normally in, in hiding. so yeah, so that it's really unrealistic to talk about and bringing in more 8 unless there is a ceasefire. how do you think of people in the us will be listening to what? the us deputy investments view i had to say when you use the, the words and the terms how people who made reference to out people having being attacked. that is really bizarre, because the mazda is never attacked. the united states has never threatened to attack the united states. it's never attacked or threatened to attack americans outside of israel in the occupied territories. so that did seem like a rather strange,
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calm them there were some american citizens among those killed in the october. you know, southern, so terrorist attacked by him us, but you know, there were even more american citizens killed in the, on the engine, in indigo. i was a strep from the is rarely even bard and i been even use a term, you know, the biggest attack on our people ever. you know, i mean it is just a, that's a, that's not, this is not 911, this is not, i mean it's almost like you was reading from those really a press release. i know there's some close identity that a lot of americans have with, with israel, but this the statement really doesn't. that doesn't make any sense. and i think it's definitely going to raise a few eyebrows. all right, we'll leave it that. thanks so much. susan susan's a human rights groups. according for an urgent investigation of the video, we must of palestinian prisoners in gaza, stripped and blindfolded. israel says the suspected fights is this evidence, many of civilians including a problem in journalist federal con reports disturbing images of
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a mass arrest in northern gaza at least $100.00 published in in menacing strip down to the underway, blindfolded and made to meal. and the identified voice in hebrew can be heard, the is not known, where they have been taken. the 1st thing jump in my mind when i saw the pictures, the 2nd one was to be honest with you, how they treated, you know, litanies those, the way to address that or the present or so for that's the case. i think the, this is your man, this is a torture. if the amount of torture on the boat then that it's a water crime declines, it goes to humanity. israel is describing them as suspected fighters,
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but an increasing number of civilians have now been identified. one of them is palestinian generalist d a i was colored, he's a correspondent for the r a b as yeah. deed, newspaper and website it say several members of his family are among those detained b. i has a disabled daughter and a very old mother. so logistically, it was very unpractical and you decided to stay. we identified him amongst to us detained. we also identified at least 2 kids under the age of 16. both of them were 15 year old and we identified to him can we use of the united nations under a school man, we identified at least 3 elderly d. a is one of dozens of journalists currently imprisoned by israel. human rights groups say is really abuse of prisoners is wide spread and systemic and the right now consent about this latest group taken in gaza. demos con judges era
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a whole lot. so remember that this bump bother is going on on the ground in gauze that we can go without the thought. a couple assume in that off in the south of the gaza strip. and it's been an intense 24 hours of bump. bother from the north to the south. where is that leaving a besieged and bombarded population yes . during the last hour israel had stepped its military attacks. of course, the gaza strip in which they started a new phase expanded, expanding the military reparations across the territory, including the south of because this trip. now the lease strikes that had been widely conducted during the last hour, had been focused on. the mason told me for him of the territory including sha yeah . paper who handed the eastern areas of canyon was where each house could you not
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have been killed in a, in a scary school in fun rooms where people were taking certain stuff inside a issue that attracts, continued the middle areas of the gauze. uh, generally we are talking about 17 palestinians have been killed in a striking on the so rocks, refugee kind of during the last hour we have also had right now the sound of these very surveillance of drugs now which become much more loud in comparison with yes, today where the, this is surveillance and drugs are responsible for gathering face have, for the maneuvering troops for the east village, for a place to target a, to destroy the targets on the ground in gauze. now the strikes continue, the alternator were shooting as well on the areas of protections and things in the north of the church rebuild to bel yeah, i'm big glass. yeah. town had been under berlin plus is really a artillery shooting offices and hours of today's morning where they are completely
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right now in sir, in, circling these areas as it gets really, drugs are openings. client id, everyone watches moving on the ground that were people, as will had been living under human, terrible situation for more than 7 weeks of fighting right now between the policy and the slightest. and he's been a few patients name john, dawn and what can you tell us about reports that stuff is today about failed is right. the operation to try and rescue sold you all? yes. the is ready. occupation for dates. try to carry out a very special operations will do to restore one of the captives off to reaching intelligence information by the services on the grounds about the indication of this is very comfortable with the palestinian fighters. i discovered in situation of the schools diminished to attack them and later israel had completely, i talked to the area which led to the killing of this is where the captives now
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it's not the only instead of. busy a of operation that had been conducted, but these will tries to do its best in order to restore the captives who had been captured. also, how much attack the board would approve of the 7 know these kinds of security secret operations continue in the shadow as the, as israel had announced earlier that one of the main central targets for this military operation is to reach to the captives from inside the territory now the more than a right now, 50 pounds thing, and so just on top tips have been killed for out the previous strikes, of course, the territory, according to the cassandra gates announcements and there are still some, uh, the bodies of those uh, issue just are and uh, uh, civilians, uh, kept it under the ruffles as the military spokes person over because some brigade had announced earlier eh, of this confrontation on the ground. now, the operations continue as the strikes continue on with the intensifying greats of
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is where the air strikes possibility of the coming of the soldiers and captives inside goes up might increase as these the process on the bottom over securing them . continue. we come off and is ready to just briefly tell us about the destruction of a very historical, most kilometers the most in gone. so today briefly yes, i'm most of the day it has been attacked by the occupation airplane were planes displaced considered to be one of the oldest historical landmarks inside guns were displaced are considered to be this most considered to be one of the largest most of course that there are 3 worth thousands of out of state in worship is we're bringing out. we're shopping inside this place now. as each man was advancing further and deeper into the central areas of kansas city and
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a particular empower stein, sequoia. these body forces have destroyed this most and they have destroyed full means of life and full historical and religious landmarks of garza and east lemma. and he's like inside the territory where the art expanding the minutes, reparation to reach the further and deeper areas in gauze city. all right, thank so much thought a fab. i assume the still ahead on al jazeera to hey, the 3 other times that joe biden is last since last week. concerning the is really occupation of guys that we need. the social media influences, juan supported us, president joe biden, and it's now become his loudest critics. the
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had a lot of that, let's have a look at the weather across europe, and it's one from rolling in from west to east after another. bringing on settled in some very well windy and wintry condition says one pulls away from the southeast . we want a dominant feature, walk in its way from the west. most central air is bringing some very heavy rain. you can see it looping round, and the boomerang shape is going to bring some snow to the alps. some frosty and icy conditions to places like germany, we have got warnings out. then some very bloss 3 wins to coastal areas of the island divided into that range, stretching down a cost front that could bring some flooding to places and it touches down it's a northern areas of spain. now on sunday, we'll have another one that starts to work its way in across the island of island. and britson is going to bring more heavy rain to west in areas of front. and you can see wintery conditions pushing the way further east, in terms of temperatures. however, just looking wilma, the cities like london and paris temperatures here above the average,
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we will see some improvement across the central area. so places like vienna coming up to 6 degrees celsius, the woman down in the south, cold in the northeast, but some improvement to moscow minus 11 degrees on sunday. the zeros here to report on the people often ignored, but who must be hurts, how many other channels can you say? we'll take the time and put extensive followed into reporting from under reported areas. of course we cover major global events, but our passion lies in making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how is fine with the young men regions. and so many others. we go to them, we make the effort. we care. we state the latest news as it breaks the lead drive of these really ministry changes slowed down. short,
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15 year old bustle, dead and then short, 8 year old item within dec reports from us and says that it freed all women and children under a sci fi agreement that ended hosted by side slaves each other for violations. and the in this journalism leaflets wed dropped by the occupation. what was says, informing people to sleep, to roughly district the, the, [000:00:00;00] the hello you're welcome. welcome to watching. i'll just do a robin. as a recap, i'll headlines now, is there any forces have detained thousands of palestinian men from to you and run
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schools and bets law here they were stripped and separated from the families. some of the design manager now being released as well says that being interrogated for possible links to home us jobs is all of the small schools being damaged. and israel's latest strikes was built more than 650 years ago and is considered as one of the most important 9 months. causes old city is riley forces have intensified federal tax across the golf. so including the giovanni, a refugee camp in north and garza, it's also been reported to capture this right. the soldiers being killed during a rescue attempt. the so essential to the war in gaza is the role of the us president joe biden made a trip to his route in the days following october. the 7th to show is on wavering support for the country. those types of calhane explains that's come at the
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political cost from the beginning of the conflict. us president joe biden has been consistent, often repeating israel's justifications for it sees and bombardment of gauze. i never really thought that i would see kind of confirmed pictures of terrorist behavior and children, a damaged statement from a us president accept his aids leader said it wasn't true. he didn't see anything. just repeated. what he had heard in the media when the out of the hospital was show within hours, he blamed quote, the other team. and he made sure to send a message of support in person. indeed, sending to aircraft carrier groups to the region and with assets sending missiles and munition and reportedly $100.00 bunker buster bombs to israel. along with the
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pledge of more than $14000000000.00 in additional assistance about 3 weeks into the war fight and was asked about the growing palestinian death toll. i'm sure it is happening q and a price of ways you to war. but i have no confidence in the number that the palestinians use. he has called for restraint, but not condemned. the lack of it by israel's military asked for additional humanitarian aid. not demanded it. button harold is his role in getting a temporary cease fire. but as the fighting began again, he reportedly told him that in yahoo, the military should not fight in the south with the same intensity that in the north, it appears they did. anyway. no public response from the us president. tens of the 10s it just people in the us that helped countless pro palestinian marches demanding he'd do more and plunging. they will never vote for buying again. going to be hard? no for me to be a hard no. yeah, okay, not the sale,
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but for the other party either. but i'm gonna have to see if there is an independent candidate that i can get behind. and it's showing up in the polls as the american media keeps pointing out, he is 50 points underwater with the youngest group of voters. political analysts say this could cost him as he seeks re election. his support has decreased now to 17 percent of the air of american electorate. so he's already losing a huge support among a key population, especially when we're looking at a swing state like michigan where the air of americans and muslim americans make up a larger percentage of the electorate. with just under year until the election, biden's team is likely hoping many will forget or vote for binding because they dislike his opponent more in a close election. that could be a costly calculation. particularly l g 0 washington. the model of the shop is, i'll just say we're a senior political analyst who joins us here on set. so model,
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i'm looking at the evolution that's been happening, ending with what we've seen tonight in the un security council from that us, deputy ambassador. how do you see the evolving position of the by the administrator and shaping up now, depending on how you look at it, you go to court if you should. but i would like even to quite a different solution of a, of the, by the administration's position on his reading. guys a look at all started with a bit of a hysteria and hyper bought hyper board by the way is present by this favorite. it's word, he's been repeating that for the past 4 decades and high for the board because every time he says no hyper boys folks, that's me just high football folks. right. and he started by saying how much is worse than isis? and basically manufacturing the case for genocide that gives guys all like the case of war crimes against most so i guess i said that the time to do so. he dispatched the 2 aircraft carriers,
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the nuclear submarines providing is that basically we got launched wherever it needs even opening the storage of american workers. those red, cool, me think something like 14 plus $1000000000.00 of extra aid. in addition to the $58000000000.00 that is right, it gets and promising to she it is riley from any strategic or diplomatic pressure . that's how it's talking. right. and then bryan before is right, was going to invade garza and by the most or here's what i call the humanitarian healing phase. you start talking about the 2 state solution about the need for a humanitarian pause. i was just when is i had started to accelerate and to intensify its bombing through the invasion of the binding of guys. so it was a bit of a deflection, just like as israel was, and graphing and gets genocide by the start talking about the distant future about
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heating between palestinians and israelis somehow by some medical of some sort. and then when a lot of that kind of did not work out and is that in fact, did start carrying out its genocide and causal. why didn't insisted that in order to buy time for is right, then the international already know. is there a needed to give in or to give up some things such as allowing more humanitarian aid, such as accepting the humanitarian pauses, such as accepting biden's, red lines about committing not to be occupied. guys put me thing not to shrink from where you have guys on so on, so forth. is read rejected, or his red lines and or his promises of heating and he met them a. so and then he ended up being in the 1st phase is basically helpless, almost here, ethical. and that's what we've seen evolving today at the united nations. when the american position is basically a bad thing, the best,
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but it is ready to position to defend an indefensible position, the unraveling of war crimes allowing or pushing the un security of you and secretary, secretary general or for an emergency meeting of the secret account. so in order to deal with the incredible, unprecedented humanitarian disaster, that's called garza with the u. s. basically, as we've probably gone to see the to veto and i thought i please working against the comes i guess in contrast to the sort of positions we have seen the us take before in the un security council like a year ago, visit the the conflict in ukraine where we the sole then the bass of the, to the united nations, been to thomas greenfield, have a very different line on protecting civilians on getting the security council
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active to pass the resolution to protect civilians. we've seen reports of attacks on kindergartens and often that just babys newborn babies in an intensive care unit have been evacuated into make shift bomb shelters to we have a solemn obligation to not look away. the people of ukraine will soon need food, and water, and shelter, and medical aid. they will face displacement and lose everything they've worked to build. for these reasons, we and i'll be in the, in consultation with our allies in partners have proposed this draft resolution holding russia to account for his aggression against ukraine. there is no middle ground. any doubters, i say, look at the kindergarten that was bomb this morning. take a hard look. so colleagues, this is
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a simple vote today. let me put it plainly. a vote. yes, if you believe in upholding the un charter. so then we fast forward to today where we have another conflict in which international human rights groups and you and experts are raising concerned about all those same issues of displacement about bombardment of civilians about the baby's intensive care units, food and water. but this is what the depth to us and by so the to the you and had to say today about those calls to impose a ceasefire and protects evidence in garza. and as of today, from us continues to pose a threat to israel and remain in charge of gaza. that is not a threat that any one of our governments would allow to continue to remain on our
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own borders. not after the worst attack on our people in several decades. for that reason, while the united states strongly supports the drivel piece in which both is really some palestinians who live in peace and security. we do not support calls for an immediate cease fire model on the contrast that was many around the was a cold double stand is very clear. is it not hypocrisy in plain sight, hypocrisy inside is the kind of stuff that america has been suffering from for a number of years now. since the war against iraq, the illegal war on false pretext? yes. iraq to it's uh, attack or brush out for its occupation of ukraine, but defending is raz occupation of the palestinian land and defending its genocide in gaza. it is, it is incredulous just in a conflict in which the t 5, you an independent you an ex, was us a cooling
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a genocide into making something that we haven't heard of that kind of statements. and somebody finds you in experts in all the conflicts with us, as we've seen this takes a much stronger stone. and you know, if you don't believe the arguments bought a few of the arguments of to sophisticated or truly get listed right or to high minded, just look at the images. look at the numbers we are watching. in plain sight, a war on schools on the hospital was under sufficient buildings. this is a warm children, as we've heard from the un secretary general. and yet, the united states does not judge the act on its merits. the acts of genocide or the act of war crime, for example, ukraine. it judges it depending on the access. the opposite of that case is russia, hence we, america is against it. but when it's in palestine, it's for it. why? because it is on all of the united states, all of this is what hypocrisy. all right? but it hasn't always been this way has if we look back on the history of us
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administrations and how they've approached that relationship with these ro is mike, how the points are now that has been some evelyn flow. thank you for having me. the 46 president of the united states and the 14 sous attempt to confront the israel palestine division on the 1st day of the current conflict to president biden. of that israel unqualified support, notably with no cold or restraint. we must be crystal clear. we stand with israel biden's and questioning support similar to that of president truman who recognized the state of israel within 11 minutes of its declaration of independence in may 1948, but the position of some subsequent presidents with more fluid dwight eisenhower, richard nixon and ronald reagan oh, vehemently oppose this very minute reaction. on occasion, the one to reagan israel began to receive $3000000000.00 and us a the g, a,
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a strong, secure israel is a shared interest. the george h. w. bush administration became the 1st to threaten to withhold annual us aid. israel continues settlement expansion. the deputy foreign minister of israel at the time was named benjamin netanyahu. and his public criticism of the u. s. threat was greeted with anger by the then secretary of state james baker. he refused to meet missing yahoo again and blacklisted him from any state department interruption. there was consequences. well, there are always political repercussions about our watcher through one on israel. and i do think that as a result of the actions hate talk, at least in the short term, the republicans law support of the jewish american community. thank you for your statements. your bomb administration took the unusual step of withholding
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a veto with you and security council of to benjamin netanyahu. again, ignore the direct us request. the curb settlement expansion across the resolution, calling for a whole to settlement activity was passed. the question of us a to israel was not brought up, but either for camp david's summits, nor was it raised by president george w bush or donald trump, to support for israel when so far as to recognize jerusalem as well as capital. but now some members of the current congress are suggesting that the mounting economic and military aid to israel be made conditional. i take that to, oh, of course. well thought, but i don't think if i started off with that we ever got the more we already know, james baker policy here. no intent to use the millions of dollars of age as liberates to cook is rails military and political excess. the hug rather than the
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rod, is this president's choice. mike kinda, i'll just say around washington. all right, so a bank to model on the shadow to serious senior political analyst in the studio model. i'm looking at the background of that and comparing to what we heard today from the statement by the us deputy ambassador to the united nations. when he referenced the worst attack on, on people, does that, you know, show this has gone in a, in, on childhood direction and walters. now, this relationship, it's really extraordinary when american officials start confusing that come through with this read as if is that was the 51st state. because they've been doing that for the past 60 days. power thing is really phrases and sound bites and statements . now you can see them actually getting confused between them on us. are we with us? are we with them? it's not clear anymore because it's there in the united states. it's almost like it's the same thing. when never before was there's
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a need for the distance between the united states and is so that america can play the growing up in the room instead of editing board instead of doing the dirty work over its little rug client is right. but what we see under by them is that america is becoming like a public administration for the is there any government for the most of the right wing fanatic is ready to go from? now this does time. in contrast with past history, mike highlight is spot on. but what happened since that since day one seems to me and recognizing goes right here because of but he did not provide it with arms like by those, for example, is going to the every american president ask for something 100 to inform is read. this was a transaction that relationship a strategic buy transaction even from in his won't get ways. he said, you know, i would do this for on juice on amazon, so forth. but where does the jewish vote don't you like your country youth, old jewish america? don't you like your country he meant is or is not to united states. but generally
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speaking, american presidents, even when they gave us most supports to, is read to distance himself that they, they did the couple, but relationship or the mindset between the united states. and these are the one who came closest. the company, good relationship was george w bush. but even he was criticized by his writing the need, those for taking a bit of a saw for stand when it came to getting out of alliance against the rock and ignoring is read for the sake of american interest in the region. so here we have an american president by the, in the spanish, just a pro is right, and press that blinded by miscalculations that neither serve us interest nor do they serve is right interest. because in the end of the day he is supported . and is there any prime minister who's not even popular in his own country? and he's basically picking his country and so that agent to the dark side. right. that's why president, by the needs before it's too late to step out and take
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a bit of a soul, but look at where things are going. he needs to lay off supporting genocide and guys because that would definitely could lead to an intended consequences in the region on model on the shot of thanks so much for coming in. not a lising that for us. now these right, the forces dropped thousands of buttons on gas and killing more than $17000.00 palestinians and launch the destroying its infrastructure. the weapons used have been largely west and supplied precision guided munitions. i'll just here as defense that it's alex could topless, explains what that means and how they look damage done to gauze what has been extensive and to see more tonnage bones dropped on it than hiroshima. told of the days when bombs were literally dropped from the target fully from open palm bay doors. in this conflict, only precision guided munitions have been used. these are poems that a guided, usually by gps or laser onto the target, in siri,
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avoiding on want to casualties. what are the more common types is the joint direct attack munition or j? then this is a combustion kit used to upgrade and own guided palm into a precision guided munitions capable of landing within a few meters of its target. bunker busters, another close of bomb being used. these huge weapons of fitted with a delay fused on a hot and goes along the weapon to penetrate deep underground. a while these width is a precise, those extremely powerful using them on target. some of those does. the populated area on us means that large numbers of casualties are inevitable when they're precisely guided, once in a pub, in blog to make killed that i'm also put to being targeted. but they're also like to kill everybody in sight. i'm most of the people in the a by the chef. the building itself then becomes a weapon as rubble as blasted out, moving at several 1000 kilometers an hour palestinian casualties of sort. as a result,
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as israel demonstrates to civilians trapped within gaza that no were safe as well. address creek is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at kings college london joins us here in the student. how good have you with us? here in the studio for a change to address? listening, the tool alex gets helpless, explained about the precision nature of some of these weapons. what does this tell us about the knowledge and the intention of those who launch a strike? now i think we have to abandon the idea that this, that they are surgical strikes and that environments such as goals. i think it's thoughts or with number one fact as density populated. areas, civilian military targets kind of could exist a, you know, right next to each other. the other problem is any jadem doesn't matter how precise it will hit. the target relies on a very good intelligence which is real clearly doesn't have, we've had the time. and again, we've seen the intelligence picture that is we have might have had in the beginning of the was no longer the same. they don't know what they're going to, don't know what they're striking. but we've heard from you and officials andras who
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said, we've given israel the coordinates all schools of all installations, right? so assume at least they know those coordinates, they know those locations. and when they re door attack, schools and hospitals, they know exactly what's the rush. they do know what is that, but there's all, there was the 2nd guessing because they've thinking, obviously they know it's disability infrastructure. the argument is always, there is also military purpose behind it. but most of the time they're striking anyway, even if they are in any case it's out. the other problem is these area affect weapons. that means even if you hit the target precisely, the area effect of that means that you will inevitably have collateral damage, which is civilian and nature, both in terms of civilians being killed as well as civilian infrastructure, destroyed it from its only claim from reading the statements from everyone from bates selim on october the 10th talking about, i'm quoting here, no justification for actions which constitute will crimes. to the statement by amnesty international december, the 5th referencing, particularly the use of j dams. being used in what they call, quote,
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unlawful f strikes on homes full of civilians that this idea of collateral damage is not something that international human rights or his right. the human rights organizations find excusable that we can, we can drop bombs on homes and say, hey, these are the targets. so too much know what you usually do a see if it is based on pro personality. obviously if there's a dual use you, uh, if, if, if a civilian target or a civilian infrastructure is used for military purposes, you have the ability to strike it. but you have to do so proportionately and with as much precaution as possible. the problem is the strikes are not proportionate and you always should be deciding in favor of civilians if they are the we notice of these really is no civilians or they're striking anyway. they're deciding always in favor of the military advantage and never as they should in favor of civilians on the ground. all right, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much. andrews creek for coming in talking to us about this. now in the last us election, joe biden helped draw out for you,
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so things to social media influences. but many of those people now tend the web backs on him because he's the support as well as long casa gabriel. as on the reports now from houston of during the last presidential election, george lee urged his more than 2000000 followers on tick tock to vote for joe biden . as a thank you, lee, along with a handful of other social media influencers, were invited to washington earlier this year to meet the president and get it behind the scenes tour of the white house. it was cool to be able to meet 1st lading by and being able to meet joe by means of it to present him by being able to meet the amazing butlers and cooks. that was, that was no. but that was then. this is now binds embrace of benjamin netanyahu and israel's killing of innocent civilians from their constant bombardment of gaza has left li, angry,
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and frustrated. so he's taking his social media to call out the president and all 3 other times that joe biden, his license last week concerning the, is rarely occupation of gaza. at times. it's just leaves facial expressions that get his point across based on what i've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team and leads sympathetic to an online effort by some air of americans to boycott voting for bite and next year. no, the data shows a lot of air, but americans are pondering to 2024 election boycott under biden's middle. these things because it is so horrific and humane. millennials and gen z social influence, there's are increasingly seeking out credible reporting on gaza and finding it from palestinian content creators. people like montez advisor, and others like him. people on the ground are documenting less. do you have like, citizen journalists who got like monetize who's literally 24 years old? he's broadcasting nice and putting this on tech soccer,
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putting this on instagram. and people are watching it. he was, you know, people who are his exact age in other parts of the world. as for lee, he feels that god's a war has been in awakening for social meet the influencers like himself. a lot of my father was on social media. a lot of my fellow categories talk about how the information overload that we've done in the past month has ever changed the way to review our country international relations. and he made for a man who was recently a guest of the president, but like so many other young social media influencers. now, one of his harshest critics gabriel's on don't. how does he to houston? all right, let's bring everyone up to speeds with where we are at this hour. a special meeting of the security council is on the way of the article. 199 was invoked by the un secretary general. during that meeting,
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we heard the secretary general owed to the council to spend no effort to and dumped the resolution for the major monetary and seas fine the wounds that jostens on running out for food. shortly after that we heard from the us step to invest in this thing. we do not support polls by the federal tax upfront takes on the big issue as opposed to what's happening now. it to the question of 5 unflinching questions. rigorous, the bank that he added to today is that another mcclin's thing is taking place. augusta, nothing goes into gauze, or without us of permission. nothing leaves casa without result. permission allow me to push back for a moment, demanding of these fires, demanding an end to the root causes of all of this violence upfront. without 0 of
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what you're looking at. this is one of the breach points through which how much flight just came into it. as well, warning sirens here is a s like some site, you know, just has remarkably intensified during the last couple of hours. we've seen these as strikes really concentrated on residential phones in residential buildings. there's a dangerous time regional spillover, of course, as long as the conversation here isn't inside the hospital then without oxygen, without electricity, the beavers inside. they are dying. for now, less than an hour away from the official start of the ceasefire. 50 feet caps its full feet release over st periods, one will batch of prisoners with these people. one of these fired the
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